Before we board the hype train, let’s go over what this is project is not: [Ivan] isn’t making any metal parts with his 3D printer, and the chassis and engine will be taken from a donor car. Also, the printed plastic parts won’t actually make their way into the final build; the 3D printed body panels will be used to pull the final panels in fiberglass. That being said, it’s still an impressive undertaking that’s going to cost [Ivan] $2250 NZD in plastic alone.

[Ivan]’s body panels are made by taking a DB4 model in Solidworks, slicing it up into 105mm squares, giving each square extruded sides, and finally securing them to the wooden form after the parts are printed. There’s still an awful lot of work to be done once the 3D printed parts are all glued together, but it’s still an amazingly impressive – and cheap – way to create a replica of a very famous automobile.

The build is not a plastic shelled car, it is a mold made from a cad file that has been printed on a hobby grade 3d printer. He is using a printerbot. effectively he is downloading a car. putting a lot of time into printing a mold. of the car, pulling the fiberglass from the mold. than attaching said fiber glass to the exterior of a different car.. I am pretty sure that the idea is different.